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" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "
Aldous Huxley
Powerful
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Mind
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" Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "
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" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "
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" The proper study of mankind is books. "
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" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "
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" Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. "
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Know
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" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "
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" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "
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Darkness
Nothing
" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "
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Yes
Paved
" I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. "
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Celery
Afraid
Dark
" Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. "
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Who
Achieve
Right
" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "
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Self
Universe
Motivational
" Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. "
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Man
Fanatic
" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "
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Great
Patriotism
Feeling
" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "
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Secret
Over
Man
" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
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History
Learn
" Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. "
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Things
Infinite
Human
" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "
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Man
Best
Doing
" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "
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Wrong
Discover
Everyone
" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "
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Geniuses
Age
Up
" Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. "
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Truth
View
Opinion
" Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. "
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Errors
Man
Succession
" We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. "
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Participate
Look
Comedy
" The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. "
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Wrong
Next
Right
" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "
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Same
Name
Else
" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "
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Experience
Happens
Wisdom
" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "
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Men
Important
" A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. "
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Freedom
Before
Man
" Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? "
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Artist
Art
Want
" Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. "
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Office
Importance
" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "
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Revolutionary
Sade
Consistent